Those are awesome! We are building in shelves for all my books on one of my walls eventually and it is shaped like yours. I love the way yours turned out! Did you use really thick boards or is that a wide trim on the edges? I love it! Thanks for sharing...:)

Okay, I have to do this!! It's amazing. So did he just put the horizontal strips across (level), screw them into the studs, then place the shelves on top and add the vertical supports underneath? We are not handy but are thinking of trying this above our kitchen cabinets.

The bottom shelf was already there. For that one we did just put the horizontal first. He built the rest in pieces. He'd make a top with two sides that had a 3'' support beam under the shelf part. He'd screw that to the wall and then build another section. This meant that there were a lot of places that had two boards butting up against each other, but he covered the entire thing with a face frame(just 1.5'' strips of mdf) so all of that is hidden. Does that make sense? I'm not sure if I'm explaining that very well. Let me know if you have any questions.